winterayars
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- Comment on The last thing Brian Thompson saw before he died 1 week ago:
Who knows? But they can look like they’re doing something, at least.
- Comment on The last thing Brian Thompson saw before he died 1 week ago:
Critically, the elites want this “solved” asap.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
So the person above may think they’re so clever, or whoever fed them that factoid may think that. Notice the claim is remineralization. Maybe that’s true, it may be that a study first showed that in 1975 and that’s not contradicted by your link but that is a non sequitur. It’s not what we’re talking about, it’s not a good faith argument.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
“I can’t wait for RFK Jr to stop this, he knows all the chemicals!”
Overheard while at the polls on election day.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
In 1945, Grand Rapids became the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water.The Grand Rapids water fluoridation study was originally sponsored by the U.S. Surgeon General, but was taken over by the NIDR shortly after the Institute’s inception in 1948. During the 15-year project, researchers monitored the rate of tooth decay among Grand Rapids’ almost 30,000 schoolchildren. After just 11 years, Dean- who was now director of the NIDR-announced an amazing finding. The caries rate among Grand Rapids children born after fluoride was added to the water supply dropped more than 60 percent. This finding, considering the thousands of participants in the study, amounted to a giant scientific breakthrough that promised to revolutionize dental care, making tooth decay for the first time in history a preventable disease for most people.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
They like the lead, though!
(Probably. I mean, they did in Flint, MI…)
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
(Don’t give them ideas…)
- Comment on This might blow up in our face 5 weeks ago:
Honestly it’s looking increasingly likely but i’m still holding out hope.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
The strategy is “Never Play Defense”.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
They know what’s going on, they know what they’re doing. They just don’t care, they like Trump they just can’t argue their case and don’t care to.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 2 months ago:
Isn’t that Hollow Knight?
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 2 months ago:
One of the originators of the idea of “planned obsolescence”. Even after the cartel got killed the manufacturers never extended the life of the lights into (to an extent) CFLs and then moreso the days of LEDs.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 2 months ago:
They’ve been sabotaged by design. LEDs should last 10+ years if built even half away reasonably, but unfortunately the manufacturers basically got together and agreed to build them in such a way they would fail. Same as regular light bulbs, they just have to work harder.
I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market–old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks. They’ve been running for like 15 years now and not a one of them has failed. I spent several hundred USD replacing all my bulbs with those back in the day and they’ve done me well.
Modern bulbs are trash by comparison. Not because the technology is limited in some way but because they refuse to make anything to that quality anymore.
We need an alternate solution to this planned obsolescence bullshit. Light bulbs hit 50k rated hours long ago and they were talking about making ones that went 100k+ but these days you can’t find anything above 25k. And that’s setting aside the fact that a lot of these rely on apps that could be dropped at a moment’s notice.
- Comment on Scam speeding ticket 3 months ago:
Fake speeding tickets as a service…
- Comment on If you have sex with a clone of yourself, is it incest? 3 months ago:
Heinlein’s “all you zombies” is an early version of this.
In terms of biology, it’s extremely rare for humans to have fully functioning sets of both reproductive systems. The reproductive physiology develops from the same parts so it either develops “male”, “female”, or (more common than people think) somewhere in between but not “both”. A clone may or may not even develop in the same way.
One other possibility, though also very rare. is near-identical twins. If twins have the same genetics (in other words, they’re identical twins) but have intersex conditions that result in different reproductive development it’s conceivable that they could reproduce with each other. It’s uncommon to be fertile incongruous with your genetics, though, so again: this would be extremely unlikely.
That said, in a sci-fi context there are some options. Biological hermaphroditism is possible in animals, though there aren’t any vertebrates on Earth, so conceivably an alien species could encounter this problem.
Advanced medicine could also build people a new reproductive system and implant it, giving them the counterpart they lacked.
Of course, in that case, advanced medicine may also be able to give you someone else’s reproductive genetics (ex, implanted sperm or eggs) and thus effectively sidestep the genetic problems. I’m imagining a particularly narcissistic person getting a gender-flipped clone of themself and using someone else’s genetic material to have a kid with themself but also avoid the shallow gene pool problem.
Of course, you don’t need to go that far. If you’re female (or have those parts anyway) you can just do IVF. Don’t even need to clone yourself, then.
Anyway, this is getting a little silly.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 3 months ago:
“High T alpha males” oh good, they invented a new gender again and it sucks.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 5 months ago:
A lot of them already called him “the God Emperor”, so…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Kind of a Hitleriam 'stache, too, being completely honest.
- Comment on Public trust 9 months ago:
Sugar free cookies! Serving size 1/100th of a cookie, round the grams of sugar down to zero! May as well, what’re they going to do? Stop you?
- Comment on Public trust 9 months ago:
They still do reduce transmission to yourself but yeah, the big win is in not spreading it yourself.
- Comment on IT nags me everyday to update iOS, but they didn't approve the update... 9 months ago:
Yep, they may not know what’s going on, there may be a bug in their system, either the update nag or the block on the new update may be incorrect.
- Comment on The world in 2024 11 months ago:
But they’ll still make themselves out to be poor orphans begging for scraps on the street corner because their wealth and power pales in comparison to their greed. It could never hope to keep up.
- Comment on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to ‘blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance,’ new research finds 11 months ago:
Funny they actually admitted it, when they wanted to bring me back into office in mid 2020 they just lied and said everyone wanted to come back but me. A quick off the record chat with my coworkers said otherwise.
- Comment on Yeah, I'm gonna take a second opinion on that... 11 months ago:
Turn a bowl upside-down and slap this bad boy on top of it. Boom, proof the bowl is a plate.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 11 months ago:
Being a shield against the decisions of upper management is the kind of class traitor work the person above is talking about. HR’s job is taking that kind of decision and turning it into something that can be executed with the least likelihood of an office shooting or lawsuit. Whether either of those things are warranted or not.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 11 months ago:
That’s basically what Fred Phelps and crew did.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Maybe enough people resigned.
- Comment on When you used all the cheat codes in GTA 11 months ago:
No way was i missing a Ferrari Enzo.
- Comment on When you used all the cheat codes in GTA 11 months ago:
I saw the Ferrari and the plane immediately but not the tank. I guess camo works sometimes even if it’s in a stupid environment for it.